“We had so much trust and so much belief, and we knew that if we stuck at it, kept patient and kept applying the pressure, it was going to pay off. I think we did just that, we fought every rally, we used each opportunity and we stayed really aggressive, and it’s what it came down to,” Mariafe added. “We are a team that press to win. We always come to each event to win, but we focus a lot on the processes and each game at a time and that’s what we’ve been doing. Yes, we got bronze in Hamburg and we would love to turn that into gold, but we can’t really focus on the expectations. It’s a journey; we’re also thinking long term and this is another step forward.”
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